1. Intro to Early Greek History - A Flourishing Civ Most Like Us?
CHW3M, March 2018
Ms. Gluskin
Cool pics
List
Gods
Art

2. Theme 1: Geography Influenced Society and Their Interactions
Black Sea
Aegean Sea
Asia Minor
Peloponnesus
Mediterranean Sea
Crete
World Civilizations Syllabus. Map Quiz No. 2 – Classical Greece
(March 5, 2011).

3. Coastal Terrain A lot of it Lots of islands (in Med. Sea, Aegean Sea)
Therefore:, depend on sea; lots of foreign contact, trade, colonies; possibly vulnerable to invasion

4. Physical Map Darker colours = higher altitudes
Mountains of Greece. N.d.
(Feb. 4, 2012).

5. Inland terrain Mountainous (steep but not that high)
Rocky: not suitable for large-scale agriculture like Egypt (not wheat)
Therefore: mountains prevented areas from unifying; independent city states (polis) formed
For most of its history there was no united “Greece”

6. City States
Metropolitan Museum of Art. The Greek Galleries: Geography of Ancient Greece
(March 4, 2011).

7. Resources

8. Phoenicians
Kaloustian. Lebanon (March 8, 2011).

9. Greek Alphabet
Brown University, Archaeologies of the Greek Past: Alphabet (Early Greek). N.d.,
(March 5, 2011).

10. Theme 2: Religious but Different from Egypt
Polytheistic
Religion influenced all aspects of life
Wanted the gods’ favour
Stories of gods meshed with stories of human heroes
Not centred on the afterlife like Egyptian religion
Delphi, an oracle that predicted the future via the prophecies of Apollo, was thought to be the centre of the world

11. Greek Religion Mount Olympus, home of the gods
Oral stories to written poems
Delphi

12. Olympics
Started 776 BCE
Connected to religion – honoured Zeus, king of the gods
Short video from National Geographic
Olive wreath as prize
SI.com
(March 8, 2011).

13. Greek Religion websites

14. Theme 3: Innovative and Conservative
Known for so many advances (changes)
Democracy
Philosophy
Drama
Science (and so much more …)
Yet also traditional in many ways (continuities)
Religion
Role of women
Frequent wars

15. Timeline {see handout in your course package}
Bronze Age (heroic age)
Dark Age
Classical Period (*golden age)
Hellenistic Period (after Alexander’s death)
*Golden age = when a society is at its most flourishing

16. Videos
(The Greeks Part 1, National Geographic) (The Greeks Part 2, National Geographic) (The Greeks, Part 3, National Geographic)